[game_preservation] doc version of doc

[Dan Pinchbeck]

Another question on the paper for everyone involved as an author - it would make things easier to list all authors under a single 'organisation' - i.e. the IGDA SIG, giving the email contact as this list address. 

Can people confirm with me they are happy with that. I can technically put everyone down in their seperate institutions, but it's going to look v. messy...

Thanks

Dan

Dr Dan Pinchbeck

Advanced Games Research Group
School of Creative Technologies
University of Portsmouth, UK

www.thechineseroom.co.uk
www.keep.port.ac.uk

>>> Andrew Armstrong <andrew at aarmstrong.org> 20/07/09 8:32 PM >>>

Feedback:

Page 1 - Not sure about "the specific threats to games are outlined," - 
shouldn't that be something like "the specific threats to preserving 
games are outlined," - since this isn't otherwise mentioned in that 
abstract.

Possibly will want to put "digital" before one of these mentions of 
"games" too, to be sure this is clear in the abstract. Board games, card 
games and so forth are a bit out of the remit (fascinating though they 
are), and it could be misinterpreted. Might want to put digital in the 
keywords search too, but I doubt this is important.

Page 2 - Not sure about the footnote, since it is the only one in the 
text - is it worth sourcing something to be a proper reference?

Page 5 - the bullet points (at least in OpenOffice) are very much pushed 
to the right of the columns - making things a bit spread-y - might be 
worth putting them all the way to the left (decreasing the indent).

Page 7 - small thing, Playstation -> PlayStation, Sony is pretty fussy 
on this ;) - it also doesn't mention the Xbox store, but two examples is 
enough for sure.

Looks well edited otherwise - there are a few small things (too many 
commas possibly in some sentences) which are more up to how you want it 
to be read, rather then how correct it is.

As for who did it, author list, apart from yourself there is the ones 
mentioned on this page:

http://www.igda.org/wiki/Game_Preservation_SIG/White_Paper/Before_It%27s_Too_Late:_A_Digital_Game_Preservation_White_Paper

I don't know if you need editors, but the main authors are listed there.

If you need me to re-read it, give me a shout.

Thanks!

Andrew
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